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SEC Risk Alert Gives Advice To Private Fund Advisors

The SEC published a Risk Alert on June 23, 2020 which outlined compliance issues discovered during hundreds of examinations of investment advisers that manage private equity funds or hedge funds.

07.07.20
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Capital Raising During Covid-19: Practical Tips

In part one of this two-part series, Baker McKenzie lawyers outline how equity capital markets have come to the rescue of listed companies struggling with the ongoing liquidity crisis.

07.07.20
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Why Impact Investing Remains A Key Focus For Investors In The Post-COVID-19 Era

Despite ongoing global economic uncertainty, major institutional investors remain focused on both the social and environmental impact of their strategies.

07.07.20
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Alternatives A "Loser’s Game": Ennis Knupp Founder

Richard Ennis, an early pioneer of quant investing and co-founder of US investment consultancy giant EnnisKnupp, has a simple message for fund trustees: Liquidate your alternative investments and put the proceeds into index funds.

07.07.20
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DB Pension Plan Funding Recovers In Q2 After Rough Q1: Reports

In the second quarter of 2020, the funded positions of defined benefit plans recovered almost half of the losses incurred during the coronavirus crash of the first quarter, according to Mercer’s pension health index.

07.06.20
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Polish Open Pension Funds Worst In World In Terms Of Investments

Polish and Czech pension funds as the only ones in OECD countries suffered losses on their investments. The OECD report – the club of the richest countries in the world to which Poland also belongs – shows that Polish Open Pension Funds (OFEs) lost a total of 2.7 percent last year.

07.06.20
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CVC Capital Closes Record 21 Billion-Euro Buyout Fund

CVC Capital Partners has completed a 21.3 billion-euro ($24 billion) fundraising for its eighth flagship fund, people familiar with the matter said, in the private equity industry’s largest new pool of capital so far this year.

07.06.20
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World’s Largest Pension Fund Loses $165 Billion In Worst Quarter

The world’s biggest pension fund posted a record loss in the first three months of 2020 after the coronavirus pandemic sparked a global market rout in the period.

07.06.20
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Hamilton Lane Closes Maiden Impact Fund, At More Than $95 Million

Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE), a Bala Cynwyd, Penn.-based private markets asset management firm (NASDAQ: HLNE), closed an impact fund with total capital commitments of more than $95 million.

07.06.20
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Semper Investment Firm Received PPP Loan

A $2.5 billion investment firm owned by Richard Parsons and Ronald Lauder received a forgivable loan from the federal government’s small business loan program.

07.02.20